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An insightful workshop, hosted by the PRISTINE and ARCFIRE projects, on "beyond SDN/NFV" was held in conjunction with the SDN and OpenFlow World Congress 2016 in The Hague (NL) in October 2016.
A demo was featuring a Distributed Interprocess Communication Facility (DIF) that was constantly being renumbered without corrupting existing flows or impairing the ability to create new ones.Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:45:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50822The European Commission presents follow-up actions from Fundamental Rights Colloquium on media pluralism and democracyhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/51128
On 9 December 2016, the European Commission published the follow-up actions from the Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights, dedicated in 2016 to fostering and improving media pluralism and democracy.Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:10:27 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/51128MEDIA-backed films in the spotlight at the European Film Awards this Saturdayhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/51124
17 films supported by Creative Europe MEDIA are competing for the European Film Academy (EFA) Awards 2016 with a total of 23 nominations.Fri, 09 Dec 2016 14:24:09 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/51124Making state of the art sensors with children's toy putty and Graphenehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50942
Graphene Flagship researchers from Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, have used graphene to make the novelty children’s material Silly Putty® (polysilicone) conduct electricity. Using this conductive polymer they found that they were able to create extremely sensitive sensors.Fri, 09 Dec 2016 09:00:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50942Annual entrepreneurship festival Slush highlights the role of universities in building a tech culture in Europehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/51010
About 17,500 company founders, investors, corporate executives, students and media converged in Helsinki on 30 November and 1 December, for the annual celebrations of entrepreneurship - the Slush conference.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:35:49 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/51010Workshop report - Supporting the implementation of eGovernment at regional and local levelhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50996
The seminar, held on 15 November, presented the various funding mechanisms available for implementation/action, and discussed how to ensure alignment of these financial instruments with the main priorities of the eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:07:39 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50996End of roaming charges: Commission determined to make it workhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50971
Following intensive exchanges with the European Parliament, Member States, stakeholders, consumer representatives, regulators and operators, yesterday the College of Commissioners discussed draft rules which reinforce the approach adopted by the College in September to end roaming charges in the EU in 2017. The latest draft further clarifies consumer rights and introduces safeguards to ensure the most competitive domestic offers remain attractive.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 11:07:10 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50971End of roaming charges for travellers in the European Union: how will the Commission make it work?https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50965
Dismantling roaming charges, when travellers call, send messages or surf on their mobile devices while abroad, has been one of the biggest success stories in Europe. In the last mile before the full end of roaming surcharges as of 15 June 2017, some more specific cases have to be addressed.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 11:00:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50965CEF eDelivery and eInvoicing Stakeholder Days 2016https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50969
More than 100 experts from the public and private sector attended this event to exchange views on and learn about the benefits of Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eDelivery and CEF eInvoicing.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 10:47:52 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50969European Stakeholder Forumhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50966
The first European Stakeholder Forum aims to gather more than 500 delegates for broad awareness raising, consultation and discussion on the action lines of the Digitising European Industry initiative. The Forum also aims to foster networking between all stakeholders in particular between the various national and regional initiatives, Digital Innovation Hubs and platforms.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 10:09:56 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50966The 68th extraordinary meeting of the Communications Committee (COCOM)https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50952
The 68th extraordinary meeting of the COCOM will be entirely dedicated to discuss the Draft Regulation of Fair Use and Sustainability. There will be no debriefing session.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 09:33:35 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50952A question of consciousnesshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50929
What is consciousness? Can it be measured? FET-Open project LUMINOUS tries to find answers to fundamental human questions.Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:53:22 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50929Opening new horizons for information storagehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50928
The Future and Emerging Technologies-Open project MAGicSky is neither about magic, nor about looking at the stars. Its very down-to-earth objective is to significantly improve information storage capacity and speed of information processing. In other words, MAGicSky research aims at developing extremely small and powerful memory elements.Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:44:23 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/5092874 European regions awarded for investing in digital health and care for the elderlyhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50802
The European Commission honoured 74 EU regions for their commitment to invest over €4 billion in innovative digital services for older persons, today, at the European Reference Sites awards ceremony in Brussels.Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:45:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50802EU budget and funding for regions and cities: live debate on Smart cities (report)https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50917
On 2nd December 2016 The European Committee of the Regions hosted a live debate on Smart cities as part of its latest online course concerning EU budget and funding. The debate was recorded and we invite you to track back the discussion.Wed, 07 Dec 2016 11:47:49 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/509176th meeting of the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA)https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50909
The European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services held its sixth meeting on 29 November 2016, in Brussels.Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:47:58 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50909eInfrastructure Proposers' Day 2017https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50893
The eInfrastructure Proposers' Day 2017 is organised to allow the consortia currently preparing proposals for EINFRA-12-2017 to present their concepts and get additional input from potential partners.Wed, 07 Dec 2016 08:39:03 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50893Pre-announcing the joint call for transnational research projects in synergy with the Graphene Flagship and Human Brain Projecthttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50834
FLAG-ERA (the Flagship ERA-NET) will present on 12 January 2017 its second Joint Transnational Call (JTC) for collaborative research projects in synergy with the two Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagships, the Graphene Flagship and the Human Brain Project. The purpose of this pre-announcement is to enable interested parties to start building their consortia and preparing their proposals.Wed, 07 Dec 2016 08:00:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50834Frequently asked questions on TOPIC ICT-32: Startup Europe for Growth and Innovation Radarhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50866
This Q&A is dedicated to ICT-CALL32: Startup Europe for Growth and Innovation Radar and will be regularly updated with information requested by the potential applicantsTue, 06 Dec 2016 14:25:52 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50866National laws lack coherence on data treatment, shows the study on Ownership and Access to Datahttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50853
A new study examining the current European legal landscape on access to and rights over data found that data ownership is not explicitly dealt with by any of the legal instruments at EU and national level.Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:54:55 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50853Workshop on the European Cataloguehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50851
The European Commission organises a workshop on ICT standards in public procurement to help improve the public procurement of digital solutions at technical level.Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:47:51 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50851What is your experience in trading on online platforms?https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50744
In its follow-up to the Digital Single Market Strategy, the European Commission has undertaken a study aimed at learning more about the business-to-business (B2B) relations between online platforms and businesses active on these platforms.
In order to learn more about current trading practices, the Commission invites all businesses using online platforms and the online platforms themselves to take part in a survey launched by the study.Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:30:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50744Japan Week - Closer cooperation with Japan on digital economy and societyhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50842
Last week was Japan week for us. Several events took place showing the depth and breadth of EU-Japan cooperation in the development of the digital economy and society.Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:04:08 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50842Graphene enables fully flexible antennas for data transferhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50833
Graphene, the thinnest, strongest and lightest known material is also flexible, impermeable as well as extremely electrically and thermally conductive. These are all properties that are well suited for next generation Near-field communication antennas enabling two electronic devices to transfer data.Tue, 06 Dec 2016 08:17:19 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50833Communicating your project in Digital Excellence & Science Infrastructurehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50832
Consult our brochure with tips for project communication in Digital excellence & Science Infrastructure. When should you communicate? What should you talk about? Which channels should you use? How to use the EU emblem?Tue, 06 Dec 2016 07:42:36 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/50832